LibraryPatternsGetting PromotedI was excellent as an individual contributor. Managem…
Problem
Toward Craftsmanship

I was excellent as an individual contributor. Management requires different skills — relational, strategic, political — that I have not fully developed. I am managing with a technical identity and it is limiting me.

Part of the pattern: Getting Promoted
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The path forward
  1. 1Name the skill gap honestly
  2. 2Build one relational or strategic skill
  3. 3Practice the new identity deliberately
One thing to try this week
Identify the single management skill most limiting your effectiveness this week. Find one resource specifically for developing it.
Related problems
A large part of how I see myself comes from the name of where I work — its prestige is borrowed into my own identity. It means I cling to a job partly for the badge, and the thought of leaving the name frightens me more than leaving the work.After being inside, I don't know who I am on the outside or whether I get a real second chance.After time away from work, I feel like I've lost my edge and everyone's passed me by.After time out — for children, illness, or a pause — I have come back to work without the identity I left with. The world moved on, my old confidence is gone, and I am not sure who I am professionally anymore now that I am returning.Anxiety about work performance leading to avoidance or paralysisAs I have become more successful, the people around me treat me differently — more deference, more distance, more assumptions about who I now am. I have what I worked for, and I feel oddly more alone inside it than I expected.

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